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Ikeda Kiriko | 池田妃凛子 (apathyisboring) wrote in disappear_plot,
@ 2009-09-17 10:45:00

Ikeda's Wedding Dungeon Crawl
Who: Shadow Kiriko and Exploration Team.
What: Dungeon crawling.
Where: Ikeda's ~~Wedding~~ Dungeon Crawl.
When: June 14/15
Why: Dungeon crawling chat supplementals!

The entrance to the dungeon takes the form of a small, Western-style chapel, with sleek, towering glass buildings visible in the distance. The closest seems to be a hotel, but an inaccessible skyline lined with modern office buildings and interesting architecture belonging to no particular cityscape is visible as well.

ETA: Dungeon Summary for those who have missed all or parts of it and don't want to pick through the chat.

Also note that Yuuto and Masami are chained together, and Emi isn't chained to anyone at all.

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

omgboyskissing
2009-09-23 09:42 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, yeah! We, uh, need to get dancing!" Yoshimi certainly wasn't nervous. No way. She was quite the experienced dancer. Nevermind that most of those experiences involved strobe lights, mosh pits, and/or random guys grinding on her, none of which seemed particularly relevant to the situation. Except maybe the flickering lights.

She did have a vague idea of the mechanics for ballroom dancing (thank you, AkoRuko fanart), but gathering all of one's information on a subject from BL had its drawbacks. To start with, relying on an all-male example left her with no idea where to put her hands.

I'm a girl, so I should copy the uke, right?

But seme-uke with those two is tricky. Ako's taller, but Ruko's one of those short little spitfire types, and they'd both look good on top. So I should copy... ...er...

She had no idea, which meant that it was time for Plan B: ripping off someone who looked like they knew what they were doing. Kozue, an apparent expert on all things girly, seemed like a good choice, except for the fact that she and Keiichi looked... closer than was strictly necessary for anyone, much less for a pair of semi-strangers like herself and Toru. But Yoshimi guessed that the pose would work just as well if a few more inches were added between the participants.

Let's see... left hand to his right shoulder, right hand to left hand. It was like a really awkward, vertical game of Whirler. With more chains.

"Do Shadows always try to get people to do weird stuff like this, or is it just Ikeda-san's?" she asked - partially out of curiosity, and partially to break the ice while she got her hands into place.

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

2dbeauty
2009-09-23 10:06 pm UTC (link)

Toru had expected Yoshimi to be a more experienced dancer than he; truth be told, it didn't take much. So when she hesitated to consider where the heck she'd put her hands, he just took it as a natural step of the process of ballroom dancing. After all, his only experience in memory of any dancing of this sort was a scene in a mecha anime. But that time, the girl had actually been Cohirria in drag, trying to get information out of "her" dance partner. He quickly attempted to banish the thought from his mind. It helped that at that point Yoshimi had put her hand on his shoulder. He jumped a little, unused to the touch, but quickly settled back in once he realized what it was.

"Ah, um..." he stalled as he in turn attempted to figure out where his hands went. With no real memory of what to do, Toru settled on mirroring Yoshimi, free hand on her shoulder, other hand in hers. It was... awkward, to say the least.

"W-well, Oubai-sempai's had us all dressed like doctors and nurses... a-and, well, mine..." He stalled, reminded unpleasantly of the events of his own dungeon as recounted by his teammates. "I-I wasn't there for all of it, but he put them through a whole series of "games." U-um... one of them was a dating sim."

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

omgboyskissing
2009-09-23 11:53 pm UTC (link)

"T-teehee, nurse outfits. So something like this is just about average?"

Yoshimi tried really, really hard not to laugh, grin widely, or get completely distracted at the idea of her classmates being forced into a dating sim. The first two she accomplished; the third, not so much. Consciously, she realized that Toru's dungeon must have been working towards a larger, more serious point, just like Kiriko's Shadow making everyone couple up and dance, but the concept...

Kiriko as the hard-to-get class representative! Renju, the stoic, emotionless girl! Masami, the sporty option! Emi as the token loli... actually, that one's kind of creepy. She probably just got sidelined like she did today.

But speculation on the details of a Nanakamado dating sim could (and probably would) wait until later. For the moment, she stole another glance at Kozue and Keiichi, then switched her attention back to herself and Toru. Of the four of them, it looked like someone was posed wrong, but she assumed that she was just mirroring the other couple's image the wrong way. If spatial relations were her strong suit, she wouldn't have tripped into Paradise in the first place.

Satisfied that her hands were at pretty much in the right place, she tried to get a feel for the music while she waited for her partner to start leading. She'd overheard once that being the girl made ballroom dancing comparatively easy, since being guided along took all the guesswork out of it, but that reasoning failed to take into account the fact that Yoshimi was clumsy enough to run into walls on a regular basis. For her, being tugged along could only end with her stumbling onto someone's toes, and being tugged along with an ankle chain to trip her up could only end in tears.

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

2dbeauty
2009-09-24 01:03 am UTC (link)

Toru looked sheepishly at Yoshimi. She really wasn't going to say anything about the dating sim? Eh, it was probably for the better. "Y-yeah, this isn't so out of the ordinary in a place like Paradise." That isn't necessarily a good thing, though...

Thus the dance begun. And the problems that arose from it. Because, no matter how clumsy Yoshimi was at the art of ballroom dancing, Toru was fifty times worse. After all, this was the guy who regularly stumbled over girls when he was just walking to places. Ballroom dancing was a whole new level to take his clumsiness to. Within seconds, he was tripping over his partner, stumbling in each direction while attempting to dance and watch Keiichi's dance moves at the same time. The chain, of course, made things even worse.

"A-ah, s-sorry, Yoshimi-san... I... really am no good at this."

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